Monday, August 18, 2014

Vet Kicked Out of Theme Park for Wearing Pro-Gun T-Shirt That Supports Military

Corporal Mario Alejandro was a member of the Marines who took
part in the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. This patriot was recently
kicked out of a Six Flags amusement park in Jackson Township, New
Jersey. His crime? Wearing a shirt that read, “Keep Calm and Return
Fire.” Thanks to his choice in apparel, he couldn’t even get past the front gate:

“I can’t let you into the park with that shirt on. That shirt’s offensive,” Alejandro recalled the guard saying to NJ.com.
“I said it’s not offensive, it’s a military shirt. I told him that I am
an Iraq veteran … I served in the war. But he said: ‘I don’t care, you
have to take it off … or you need to buy another shirt to put over it.”

Alejandro, who could not be reached for comment Friday,
refused to remove the T-shirt from The Reconnaissance Foundation, a
nonprofit group supporting Marines and their relatives, or to buy
another garment, leading the security guard to call a supervisor.

“I saw him talk to two women in white shirts, who looked at
me and then shook their heads,” he told NJ.com. “And then the man
grabbed my arm and asked me to leave. I told them that it’s not
offensive, that it’s a military shirt and that it means nothing. But
they said: ‘I don’t care, get out of the park.’”

The proceeds from Alejandro's shirt goes to military
veterans. It was supposed to be a win-win: He could exercise his First
Amendment right while supporting his fellow soldiers. No matter to Six
Flags, it seems.

What exactly is offensive about promoting the Second Amendment and
wearing our nation's colors? Unfortunately, this isn't an anomaly.
Across the country Americans have been punished for sporting their right to bear arms.

The theme park tried to excuse away its action toward the
veteran by noting its ‘longstanding relationship’ with U.S. veterans –
such as its policy to offer discounts to veterans and events honoring
them and their families.

Sorry, that's no excuse. Shame on Six Flags for humiliating one of our nation’s bravest.

The GOP Needs to Return to a "Feared By Our Enemies" Foreign Policy

The GOP is in the midst of a public foreign policy debate. Debate is
fine, but as Republican we must agree on some basic premises. The most
important premise is that instead of laughing at us, our enemies should
be terrified of us.

Yes, terrified. The world isn’t some sort of fantasy milieu of earnest,
huggy people who want to work together to forge a brighter tomorrow for
all the world’s citizens. It’s full of bad people, many of whom want us
enslaved if not dead. They aren’t bad because we’re rich, or
insufficiently carbon neutral, or any of that other nonsense. They are
bad because they are bad, and our foreign policy needs to recognize the
necessity of confronting and destroying them wherever they are.

Anything less is childish naïveté that will kill Americans down the road.

Foreign policy isn't a theoretical discussion in some college seminar
led by a pony-tailed grad student who frets about “imperialism” and has
never held a M16. I understand the idea and appeal of
non-interventionism, and in some cases I'm even sympathetic – after all,
I was twice one of those guys intervening.

But prior poorly executed and thought-out engagements overseas do not
somehow give us a pass on our responsibilities in the future. We are the
United States of America. There is no nation comparable – at least none
on the good guys’ side – and if we decide to pull up stakes from the
world, we are making a conscious choice to cede it to our enemies.

Yes, enemies. Those who oppose those are not simply unhappy because we
support the democracies they hate or because they are aggrieved over
some imagined slight. They are evil. A lot of people, including some
Republicans, don’t want to face the concrete fact that evil exists.
Denial doesn’t alter reality; it makes skyscrapers collapse.

Our enemies understand their own goals even if we refuse to. Whether it
be the imposition of a jihadist caliphate, a Russian resurgence, an
Iranian bomb or Chinese supremacy over Asia and the Pacific, they are
serious about their interests. Too many Democrats, and now some in the GOP, treat our interests as just a talking point.

No, not every struggle between Third World factions demands American
intervention. But the fact that our enemies aren't necessarily killing
us in downtown Topeka today doesn't mean we can ignore them.

After all, that's their goal. They say it openly. They want to come
here. They want to destroy us here.

The Jews of Europe learned the hard
way that when your enemy says he's going to come and kill you, you
should treat him as if he intends to come and kill you.

“We
feel that life is nothing. Life isn’t worth a thing. That’s why we have
suicide bombers.” In any war between the civilized man and the savage,
support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.

“More than a million. All of us are for Jerusalem. All of our
people,” she replies. “All of us, not just a million, we’re all for
Jerusalem. Do you understand?”

“Death is a natural thing for us. We’re not afraid to di[e],” Raida
continues. From the smallest infant, even younger than Muhammad [her
baby son,] to the oldest person, we’d all sacrifice ourselves for
Jerusalem. We feel we have the right to it. … It’s heresy to say that
Jerusalem isn’t ours.”

The news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted Friday for
conducting a lawful act has Republican strategists and others steaming
about a pattern of abuse by Democrats: When they can't beat Republicans
at the polls, they try to indict them in criminal court.

The Perry indictment focuses on his threat to veto funding for the
Travis County (Austin) district attorney's public integrity unit after
D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg was arrested for driving under the influence.

Her blood alcohol was nearly three times the legal limit, and she was
seen on video being unruly and belligerent to police officers, who had
to physically restrain her. Lehmberg served about half her 45-day jail
sentence for her actions, but has refused to resign.

Perry called on Lehmberg to resign, threatening to veto legislative
funding for the unit if she didn't. Lehmberg did not resign and Perry
followed up on the threat.

No one is challenging Perry's legal right to veto any bill he chooses,
but because of the threat, the liberal advocacy group that backs
Lehmberg, Texans for Public Justice, said Perry had committed an abuse
of power.

They persuaded a friendly judge to appoint a special prosecutor who was
able to get a grand jury in mostly-Democrat Travis County to indict
Perry on two counts of misuse of public office.

The indictment says Perry used the power of his office to try to coerce a public official.

But even fair-minded liberals are angered by the obvious abuse of the criminal justice system.

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax that while said he is liberal Democrat who would never vote for Perry, he was "outraged" by the indictment.

"Everybody, liberal or conservative, should stand against this
indictment," Dershowitz said. "If you don't like how Rick Perry uses his
office, don't vote for him."

Even David Axelrod, former aide to President Barack Obama, called it"pretty sketchy."

Pundits of the left and right see little chance of conviction, but
Republicans note a disturbing trend by Democrats in misusing the
criminal justice system for political purposes.

In 2010, it was District Attorney Lehmberg who pushed a Travis County
grand jury to indict Texas Congressman and Republican House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay on money laundering charges relating to state races in
2010 that helped Republicans gain control of the legislature.

Last year, a Texas appellate court overturned the DeLay conviction, saying it was "legally insufficient."

A few short weeks ago an Orthodox Jewish rabbi was brutally
murdered on his way to synagogue in North Miami. A good man died...a man
of the cloth...and nary but a few words were reported on this crime
because there was NO rioting in the aftermath...NO call to violence...NO
call for revenge. He was laid to rest peacefully and his story has
faded from the public eye even though his death was indeed a hate crime
as a swastika and the word 'Hamas' was found painted on the synagogue's
walls that he was walking to.

This week a thug in Ferguson, Missouri was gunned down by the police
after committing a strong-armed robbery of a convenience store where he
struck the cashier in the neck pushing him hard against the counter.
Only 18 years old...and even his parents said he was NO angel...yet the
media went into full damage control and is portraying him as such.
References to the Trayvon Martin case abound amid cries of racism and
revenge, and this city's black population sees once-improving race
relations purposely being setback yet again.

Two men died yet only one death has been a call to arms, to riot, to
loot, and to steal. Only one death has been made into a national news
story about racism where NO racism appears at this moment to have been involved, yet
the media and the race-baiting political whores have twisted it, trying
to make it so. And of course our hater-in-chief...Barack HUSSEIN
Obama...put his two-cents into this affair just as he did in the Trayvon
Martin case...simply because a young black man was killed by a white
man.

"If I had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin," Obama said
as he fueled the embers of hate in the small town of Sanford, Florida a
few summers ago. And those words and others he said still smolder at
times. And now with the death of Michael Brown he again butts in NOT
knowing the facts surrounding the case. Saying with a look of
pre-judgment on his face that, “Of course, it’s important to
remember how this started...we lost a young man in heartbreaking and
tragic circumstances...he was 18 years old, and his family will never
hold Michael in their arms again,” I say, "NO Mr. Obama...a thug who made a conscious decision to steal...to rob...paid the ultimate price for his actions."
And NO matter how the media tries to turn this shooting into a white
man killed a poor black boy scenario, this shooting was NOT a black
thing or a white thing but a decision made by a police officer who whether
rightly or wrongly was in fear for his life.

And that officer's decision needs to be judged in a court of his peers
NOT in the court of public opinion...especially NOT in a court where the
media portrays every black man as the innocent victim and every white man as
the guilty party. And sometimes to make matters worse the media doesn't report black on white
crime at all.

Now don't get me wrong it is indeed sad when any young person is
killed, but this anything but a child was heading down the wrong path in
life. Posing for selfies and then posting them on the internet for all
to see...these photos showed a young man making gang signs, drinking,
and in one supposedly showing off an illegally gotten gun. So NO...this is NOT the action
of someone the media needs to be making a victim of. His choices in life
were anything but noble, and it's way past time to end the violence
being done in his name...being fueled on by statements made by a
race-baiting president who has already set race relations back 50 years
or more.

Ferguson, Missouri is hurting as it's being engulfed in the fires of hate and
revenge as predominately black-owned businesses are being looted and
destroyed in this thug's name. And the other race-baiters of name are
egging this type of behavior on. The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
descended with their entourages on this town before the police even had time to
name the officer who fired the fatal shot. Stirring up hate these
race-baiting whores use their own people to line their pockets, for
truth be told stirring up racial hatred is indeed big business bringing
in big profits to those who make their living off hate.

And
the logic of these race-baiters is in and of itself twisted, for
they are encouraging the destruction of their own people's
businesses... encouraging the destruction of black-owned businesses.
Honest and decent
citizens...hard working business owners...are the ones being hurt...as
they watch their piece of the American dream being destroyed by divisive
men who are
using them as their cause de-jour to up their own bank accounts...to get
their face on air so they can perpetrate and spread the lie that every
and anything bad done to a black man is whitey's fault.

And now into the mix comes the New Black Panthers to stir up NOT just
trouble but to encourage revenge at all costs. In fact, the FBI is more
than a bit concerned that Panther members have arrived in Ferguson to
advocate violence against the police themselves. In the words of NBP
leader Chawn Kweli, “This is the hour all the greats promised. If you die, die like a warrior. I’ll see you on the ground.”
Vile words of hate, violence, and revenge...vile words that can spread
beyond Ferguson bringing what was the riots and aftermath of Watts to
the midwest...bringing the lie of perceived racism to an American public that
has grown weary of the black victim mentality that blames everyone white for indiscretions done
long before anyone alive today was even born.

And
with Missouri's governor now being forced to issue a 'state of
emergency' along with a curfew to help try and quell the looting and
escalating violence being spurred on by America's 'supposed' black
leaders...the
biggest losers of all are the black people of Ferguson... honorable men
and women of color who have taken to the streets in peaceful protest as
they exercise their
First Amendment right to protest the death of one of their
own. These are black people who do NOT condone all the hate, violence,
and destruction being done as revenge for a death that is still enmeshed
in conflicting reports, yet these are the ones who have become lost in
all the media attention being given to those who loot, steal, and hate.
And that is so sad for when mob violence...mob mentality...takes
over...'innocent until proven guilty' becomes a concept that the likes
of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and their ilk, twist and distort to make
it seem that justice is for 'whitey' alone...that justice and truth is
'for them NOT for us.'

So as Ferguson's police and town
officials try to restore calm and diffuse the still growing unrest, the
race-baiters...who are in actuality the very ones who hold black people
down...continue to
counter their every move. Using Michael Brown's death as a catalyst for
hate...using his death as an excuse to loot and to steal...these
'supposed'
black leaders will be the only ones to come out as winners of sort, as
they line their own pockets on the back of a small midwest town
hurting over the death of one of their own...hurting over a young man's
death whose
circumstances are still NOT yet truly known.

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